Michael Rießler
General linguistics
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
Germany
Biography
I hold an MA degree in Northern European Studies from Humboldt University of Berlin, a PhD in General Linguistics from the University of Leipzig and I am an Adjunct Professor in Finno-Ugric / Uralic Studies at the University of Helsinki. My current affiliation is at the University of Freiburg, Germany, where I am a member of the European Commission ( http://saami.uni-freiburg.de ) and I am also a co-applicant for a large-scale interdisciplinary research project ( https: / / /inel.corpora.uni-hamburg.de ) Funded in the Academies' Program at the University of Hamburg and aiming at the systematic linguistic documentation of several Uralic and other languages ​​of Siberia.
Research Interest
Multilingualism and Language Diversity are the major keywords for my own professional interest as a linguist. In addition to documenting and describing endangered languages ​​with contemporary e-science methods, I am a specialist in the sociology of language and minority language policy, as well as language and linguistic typology.
Publications
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Michael Rießler and Joshua Wilbur (2017). "Documentation of endangered oral histories of the Arctic." In: Oral History meets Linguistics. Ed. by Erich Kasten, Katja Roller, and Joshua Wilbur. Fürstenberg: Foundation for Siberian Cultures. 31-64
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Ciprian Gerstenberger, Niko Partanen, Michael Rießler, and Joshua Wilbur (2017b). "Utilizing language in the documentation of endangered Uralic languages." In: Northern European Journal of Language Technology (NEJLT). 4. 29-47
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Ciprian Gerstenberger, Niko Partanen, and Michael Rießler (2017). "Instant annotations in ELAN corpora of spoken and written Komi, at endangered language of the Barents Sea region." In: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages. ACL Anthology. Honolulu: Association for Computational Linguistics. 57-66.
